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Last week one Henry M. Blackmer, U. S. citizen residing in France, found himself lacking lines which, though not as intimate as a marriage license yet were of some importance to his wellbeing. For, the U. S. Government had succeeded in taking from him his U. S. passport, leaving Mr. Blackmer in the embarrassing predicament of a "person whose papers are not in order." Mr. Blackmer is urgently wanted in the U. S. as a witness in the coming (October) trial of Albert B. Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil man, for conspiracy...
Half an hour later MM. Rosengolz and Vojkov were pacing up and down the platform deep in talk. Suddenly a youth accosted them. He was a high school student of Vilna . . . Boris Kovenko, he _ said. Would Soviet Minister Vojkov please grant him a passport to enter Russia? He had applied often at the Soviet Legation, but had been refused for no reason that he could understand. Would not the Soviet Minister grant his request...
...Free passport visas and special rebates by the governments of France, Belgium and Switzerland have been granted men on this tour...
...ruling divides border aliens into two classes-native and foreign-born. Native Canadians will be permitted continued commuting privilege upon paying a $10 passport fee ard $8 head tax. Foreignborn Canadians, even though naturalized Canadian citizens, are rated according to their country of birth, not their country of naturalization. They must secure passport visas from U. S. consuls in their native countries. The ruling approved by U. S. Secretary of Labor Davis goes into effect June 1; provides six months there after for persons affected to get necessary documents...
...quarters into Vanity Fair's newest coffers, to make sure what they look like. In six months, 280,000 people have patronized the first Photomaton studio, on Broadway, including Governor Smith, who played there for an hour, and Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays. Business may get bad for passport artists and proprietors of half-moon parlors. Photomaton Inc. looks for lively trade from police departments, commutation ticket offices, license bureaus-wherever quick recording and identification are needed. Meantime Inventor Jo-sepho, who is a Socialist only three years removed from penniless Russian immigrancy, will act consistently. Half...